iTunes 11 Delayed, Will Arrive By End of November

[Prallethrin]

Can't say I didn't see that coming, given that it's so late in the month and it hasn't shown up.

 

[Steve.P.JobsFan]

Let's hope they're using the extra time to remove the bloat from iTunes.

iTunes 10 and previous versions are FAT.

 

[kas23]

There's really nothing wrong with iTunes right now, so I can wait. I doubt I'll use any of the iCloud features anyway. Unless it comes attached with that new music service. That's going to be cool.

 

[bushido]

apple is rly trying to piss me off this month!!!

 

[MacDav]

I don't care what anyone says, things just don't seem to be heading in the right direction with Apple since Cook has taken over.

No!!! it's Scott's fault. Scott Forstall = New Apple scapegoat. There's plenty of blame to go around. Forstall probably more to blame than others, and without Steve Jobs to protect him...Bye Bye Scott.

 

[Aluminum213]

it was shown in a pretty late form in June and it still needs till the end of November?



good job Apple

 

[Porco]

Better not to rush it.

 

[rhett7660]

If this is the case, of getting it right before it ships, I am all for it!

 

[TheRainKing]

LMAO, knew it.

I thought to myself, if they are waiting so damn long in October to release it, it's probably not even ready. I was expecting it to be delayed further or to be released with lots of bugs.

 

[mbnt]

At first I was really bummed, because I've been looking forward to this for quite awhile.

Now with the whole management shuffle, I'll be more than happy to wait for an iTunes 11. With Ive heading up Human Interfaces, this could be a major game changer.

Better to wait for good, solid programming than rushing something out the door.

Kudos to Tim Cook for stepping it up! Steve would be most proud, and he'd probably kick Forstall out after the whole Maps issue.

 

[JHankwitz]

No. No iOS 6.0.1, No iTunes 11, No new Safari for Windows. Why?

I would think it's because this software is so darn complex and needs to operate on so many different devices and with so many different systems.

 

[CapnJackGig]

Better for it to be late than a buggy piece of crap.

If only they delayed Maps, Siri, and iOS 6.

 

[Gemütlichkeit]

Better ready than broken.

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If only they delayed Maps, Siri, and iOS 6.

Agreed. Still no need to get upset. Looks like apple learned their lesson. They were pretty much stuck at releasing ios 6 early due to the new hardware.

 

[HMI]

I hear you. I'm in a similar situation...we have to have a product launched by mid-December, even though we don't yet have all necessary assets from the design team to complete the product. Their deadlines were moved, but the developers deadlines stayed the same. Bottom line...this kind of thing happens too frequently.

Or like working in TV/film/video production when some idiot sales person promises their client the whole world in 1/2 day for $1 without ever bothering to either tell you that they did this or asking you if it is even a realistic goal. Had they done so, I could have said no, I have these 4 other jobs I'm working on today, my plate is full, it won't be done until X. Go back to your client and tell them you're an idiot. Then as you are just finding out at 6pm on Friday night that you have to stay and work to 2am, they are happily walking out the door for their weekend. WTF?

 

[Regbial]

Why make promises you can't keep? Not good for the image there Apple.

Would Steve have allowed this?

I don't really care I have to wait another month. I care that I've been waiting for iTunes 11 all month and right at the end they're like "OOops lololol ur gonna have to wait another month!"

I dunno I had a feeling something like this may happen when I saw iTunes 11 in the iPhone 5 presentation. They showed this cool thing where if you click on an album it expands, BUT with the general color of the album as the background behind the songs, it looks good. Yet in the back of my mind I was like "Hmm, that's gonna be hard to program, especially for more complex album art." :/

When I saw the news today I was like "HA I knew it!"

 

[TennisandMusic]

Why make promises you can't keep? Not good for the image there Apple.

Would Steve have allowed this?

I don't really care I have to wait another month. I care that I've been waiting for iTunes 11 all month and right at the end they're like "OOops lololol ur gonna have to wait another month!"

I dunno I had a feeling something like this may happen when I saw iTunes 11 in the iPhone 5 presentation. They showed this cool thing where if you click on an album it expands, BUT with the general color of the album as the background behind the songs, it looks good. Yet in the back of my mind I was like "Hmm, that's gonna be hard to program, especially for more complex album art." :/

When I saw the news today I was like "HA I knew it!"

You think they started programming it after they announced it, and had to finish it in a month or so?

iTunes should have been pretty much done when they announced it. If they didn't know they could hit October when it was just a few weeks away, they did a bad job.

 

[milo]

Would Steve have allowed this?

Yes.

And the answer to that question is virtually always yes.

 

[faroZ06]

Delayed? Good. It's probably going to suck, or at best, give me features I don't give a @#$% about. At least my iPhone will work with iTunes 10 for a while longer.

 

[mariusaz]

No surprise there, I called it. It was fun while it lasted.

 

[GoldenJoe]

All I want is the ability to shop for any locality. Let me buy the foreign music I want.

 

[Sky Blue]

All I want is the ability to shop for any locality. Let me buy the foreign music I want.

not going to happen

 

[50548]

Better for it to be late than a buggy piece of crap.

Better for it to be late than look like Forstall's absolute POS iPad Music app.

 

[pdjudd]

All I want is the ability to shop for any locality. Let me buy the foreign music I want.

That's up to the labels and not Apple. And they aren't going to let you do that either.

 

[WhackyNinja]

Dammit all

 

[HMI]

No I'm not talking about the rumored streaming services. I'm talking about streaming your already purchased content right from iTunes. I'm hoping the app itself should act like Netflix.

But first of all, your purchased content will always appear on your library screen as if it was downloaded, even though you might not have. This is a huge plus for me right off the bat because you don't have to go back and forth between your library and the store just to see what you've purchased. Have you tried redownloading your purchased content from the iTunes store? It's highly inconvenient. Just see how many clicks/taps and how much loading it takes to do it. The way iTunes 11 is set up, with iCloud built in, you see everything right in front of you without having to go into the store. I personally love this new feature.

And my big hope (and i'm not 100% sure about this), is that you might be able stream the content right there from your library screen. So let's say you purchase a movie, but choose not to download it. With iTunes 11, it will always show on your library screen, because you've purchased it. And hopefully just by clicking "play", you can immediately stream it. Anyway, the other huge factor here is a huge savings in disk space for people like me who buy tons of HD movies and TV shows, as well as music. I have an external 2TB drive that is already 100% full and I had to stop downloading the latest episodes of The Walking Dead because I ran out. Now about 95% of movies and all TV shows are on iCloud so you no longer have to keep these stored locally on your drives. It means I can finally free up tons of disk space now and just stream my purchased content. It's just an incredibly more streamlined way of driving the iTunes store and iCloud efficiently to the user.

That's a good plan until the zombie apocalypse comes, then you're going to wish you had a backup. Or you could lock yourself in a mall and have free blu-rays "for the rest of your life."